<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <big>About once a month I run into the following problem. I don't know how I get into it and I sure as heck can't find a way out. The cursor turns into a 4-pointed star with a red-dot in the middle. Think of a compass quadrant with small arrows pointing N, S, E and West with a red dot in the middle. At this point I can't use the cursor for anything... can't click on anything, bring up the app menu, move things around, nothing. I have tried all kinds of keyboard tricks such as ctl-f? or alt-anything and nothing will kill this mode. ESC, nothing. The only solution I have found is to re-boot which is pretty serious. I just got into this mode while I was doing a lot of CTL-C and CTL-V (copy, paste) while also using the mouse and it was probably a finger-fumble that got me into this mode. Now I am running XFCE, which may or may not have a bearing on the situation... But I am befuddled for a solution and I don't really even know how to describe it in order to do a bug search. Anyone run into this? </big> </body> </html>